Despite that, the ICANN process has been moving along. If, like me, you are curious about the gTLDs for which people are vying, you can get the full list as a CSV file from ICANN, or you can search through the list on the ICANN site.

Of the 1,930 gTLDs, 116 of them are in character sets that the average English-speaking American won’t ever see or be able to use (such as Chinese, Cyrillic, and so on). As you go through them, you’ll see lots of brand and company names, and even a few slogans in the mix. You’ll see some cases where a brand name (such as .youtube) is not registered by the brand owner (Google, in this case), or perhaps ones where the target audience seems a little too targeted (such as .aarp).

Selected Duplicates

Of the remaining (the ones I can read), some of them seem odd, some of them seem too long to type, and some of them are duplicates which means an auction process will kick in to determine who should get rights. Of the over 750 duplicates, here are some of the ones that stood out to me (or just look at my favorites):

String

Applicant

Location

Region

APP

.APP REGISTRY INC.

KY

EUR

APP

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

APP

dot App Limited

GI

EUR

APP

Webera Inc.

AE

AP

APP

NU DOT CO LLC

US

NA

APP

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

APP

Lone Maple, LLC

US

NA

APP

Dot App LLC

US

NA

APP

DotApp Inc.

US

NA

APP

TRI Ventures, Inc.

US

NA

APP

Afilias Limited

IE

EUR

APP

Merchant Law Group LLP

CA

NA

APP

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

BLOG

BET Inc.

JP

AP

BLOG

Afilias Domains No. 1 Limited

IE

EUR

BLOG

Top Level Design, LLC

US

NA

BLOG

Corn Shadow, LLC

US

NA

BLOG

Personals TLD Inc.

AE

AP

BLOG

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

BLOG

Merchant Law Group LLP

CA

NA

BLOG

PRIMER NIVEL S.A.

PA

LAC

BLOG

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

BOOK

R.R. Bowker LLC

US

NA

BOOK

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

BOOK

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

BOOK

Global Domain Registry Pty Ltd

AU

AP

BOOK

Bronze Registry Limited

GI

EUR

BOOK

NU DOT CO LLC

US

NA

BOOK

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

BOOK

Double Bloom, LLC

US

NA

BOOK

DotBook, LLC

US

NA

CASINO

dot Casino Limited

GI

EUR

CASINO

Binky Sky, LLC

US

NA

CASINO

Afilias Limited

IE

EUR

CASINO

dotBeauty LLC

US

NA

CLOUD

Symantec Corporation

US

NA

CLOUD

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

CLOUD

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

CLOUD

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

CLOUD

Dash Cedar, LLC

US

NA

CLOUD

ARUBA S.p.A.

IT

EUR

CLOUD

CloudNames AS

NO

EUR

DESIGN

STARTING DOT

FR

EUR

DESIGN

BET Inc.

JP

AP

DESIGN

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

DESIGN

Top Level Design, LLC

US

NA

DESIGN

NU DOT CO LLC

US

NA

DESIGN

Black Avenue, LLC

US

NA

DESIGN

Design Trend Registry Inc.

CA

NA

DESIGN

Uniregistry, Corp.

KY

EUR

DOCS

Microsoft Corporation

US

NA

DOCS

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

FREE

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

FREE

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

FREE

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

FREE

Over Keep, LLC

US

NA

FREE

Uniregistry, Corp.

KY

EUR

GAY

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited

VG

EUR

GAY

Top Level Design, LLC

US

NA

GAY

United TLD Holdco Ltd.

KY

EUR

GAY

dotgay llc

US

NA

MAIL

Afilias Domains No. 2 Limited,

IE

EUR

MAIL

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

MAIL

1&1 Mail & Media GmbH

DE

EUR

MAIL

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

MAIL

Victor Dale, LLC

US

NA

MAIL

WhitePages TLD LLC

US

NA

MAIL

GMO Registry, Inc.

JP

AP

MAP

United TLD Holdco Ltd.

KY

EUR

MAP

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

MAP

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

MOBILE

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

MOBILE

Pixie North, LLC

US

NA

MOBILE

Dish DBS Corporation

US

NA

MOVIE

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

MOVIE

dot Movie Limited

GI

EUR

MOVIE

Webdeus Inc.

AE

AP

MOVIE

NU DOT CO LLC

US

NA

MOVIE

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

MOVIE

New Frostbite, LLC

US

NA

MOVIE

Motion Picture Domain Registry Pty Ltd

AU

AP

MOVIE

Dish DBS Corporation

US

NA

MUSIC

DotMusic Inc.

AE

AP

MUSIC

DotMusic / CGR E-Commerce Ltd

CY

AP

MUSIC

dot Music Limited

GI

EUR

MUSIC

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

MUSIC

Victor Cross

US

NA

MUSIC

Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google)

US

NA

MUSIC

.music LLC

US

NA

MUSIC

Entertainment Names Inc.

VG

EUR

NEWS

DotNews Inc.

AE

AP

NEWS

dot News Limited

GI

EUR

NEWS

Amazon EU S.Ã r.l.

LU

EUR

NEWS

Hidden Bloom, LLC

US

NA

NEWS

Uniregistry, Corp.

KY

EUR

NEWS

Merchant Law Group LLP

CA

NA

NEWS

PRIMER NIVEL S.A.

PA

LAC

Favorites

And now some of my favorites:

.adult

.afamilycompany

.diet (three of these)

.dot (there were two of these)

.dotafrica (for the slashdot-literate)

.family

.fish

.foo

.goo

.gripe

.hiphop

.ieee

.imdb (by Amazon)

.ketchup

.kids

.law

.lawyer

.legal

.lgbt

.lol (two of these)

.men (with no corresponding .women)

.mormon

.ninja (for all those self-declared web and social media experts)

.porn (but no corresponding .pr0n)

.republican (with no corresponding .democrat or .libertarian)

.sex (two of these)

.sexy

.sucks (three of these)

.web (seven of these)

.website (three of these)

.wtf

So there is a proposal for .ketchup, but nothing for .bacon? Internets, you have let me down.

Update: 11:41am

I see a lot of traffic coming to this post from people looking for “Charleston Road Registry.” A couple minutes in the ICANN application shows that not only does that entity have its address at Google HQ, but the contact is Google’s policy analyst. From the application (section 18(a)):

Charleston Road Registry is an American company, wholly owned by Google, which was established to provide registry services to the Internet public. […] As discussed further in the responses to questions 23 and 31, Charleston Road Registry intends to outsource all critical registry functions to Google Registry Services.

Update: May 8, 2013

The marketing manager for names.co.uk guest-writes a post at .net Magazine (“Google sets precedent for new gTLDs to be open“) detailing how Google may be opening up any of the new gTLDs it acquires, instead of restricting their use to just Google brands. The writer hopes others will follow Google’s lead.

Oops messed up the formatting in my original comment. Corrected version:

I just spent about an hour looking for a way to make a domain out of my last name, ie “.bacon” , or register a website “evan.bacon” if it already exists. Then i found your articles about this, including Make Your Own TLD? (I want .bacon). This cracked me up. Promise me you will contact me if you get it, I will pay good money to be hosted :)

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